Acceptance

Hi-jacked by Fear

Do you ever find yourself saying or behaving in a way that takes you right off track from who you believe you are and want to be? As if you got in your car one morning to go somewhere beautiful and someone held a gun to your head and said, “No, drive straight to hell […]

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Worth Doing Half Assed

“If something is worth doing, it’s worth doing half assed.” (KC Davis) I quoted to my partner as we got back into the car and we laughed. All day, a day of blue skies and glorious sunshine, I had wanted to get to the sea, to lie on the beach, and maybe go into the

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Pause Gently: Hold Lightly

Do you have your dreams, or do your dreams have you? Do you have your feelings or do your feelings have you? Do you have your job or does your job have you? Hold it lightly, then you can put it down when you have had enough. Miriam Grace I’m aware that sometimes we have

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Here and Now: the timeless, powerful and effective Gestalt teaching

Often reframed  as mindfulness, acceptance, focussing or compassion focused therapy, and having borrowed from buddhism, Zen, Reichian therapy, the Gestalt practice of starting where we are has retained its power for nearly 60 years, for centuries if we acknowledge that this is pre-psychoanalytic. Basic counselling training teaches counsellors how to provide a safe space: on

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Great Expectations

Gestalt ‘Prayer’ I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations,
 And you are not in this world to live up to mine.
 You are you, and I am I,
 and if by chance we find each other, it’s beautiful.
 If not, it

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